Pvt hospitals carried out 95% of cadaver donations in 2015

The recipient was born with only one kidney. He suffered from a kidney failure about a decade ago and has been undergoing dialysis ever since," said Dr Sharad Shah, transplant coordinator at Lilavati Hospital, adding that the patient was recovering well after surgery. The donor liver was transplanted into a 51-year-old man at Global Hospital in Parel. A hospital source said the family was even willing to donate his heart but it was not fit to be transplanted.

"The boy came to us with a clot in the brain. He was in coma right from the beginning. It was tough for the family to accept it but they came around. They were very forthcoming when the idea of organ donation was explained to them," said Dr Harshad Parekh, consultant neurological surgeon at Nanavati Hospital who treated the donor. More than 110 end-stage organ failure patients got a fresh lease of life last year as the cadaver transplant programme touched an all-time high with 42 donations. ZTCC secretary general Dr Sujata Patwardhan said the programme in 2016 will hopefully see more donations.

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